Cheng reports, “Several friends asked me if they should upgrade from a iPhone 3G/3GS to the $99 8GB iPhone 4 instead. I think this would be a poor decision when the faster iPhone 4S is available with a better camera, better antenna, and Siri for only a bit more (especially when factored over the length of a cell phone contract).”
“Certainly, we had moments during our testing when we laughed at Siri’s clever ability to decipher our casual language and not only deliver a result, but a very specific and accurate result,” Cheng reports. “A query about how many calories were in a tortilla provided the answer plus a whole host of other nutritional information. A query about how to find a small neighborhood market switched over to the Maps app and showed me directions between the market and my current location. When asked where one of my friends was (we were meeting up at a certain time and he was late), Siri looked up that friend in Find My Friends before showing me a map of his current location.”
Much more, including benchmarks, in the full, comprehensive review here.
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